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Definition: Commentate |
CommentateVerb1. Make a commentary on. 2. Serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Commentate \Com"men*tate\, transitive and intransitive verb. [Latin expression commentatus, past participle of commentari to meditate.]. (Websters 1913) |
| "Commentate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Commentate" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "commentate": commentate on. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
commentate | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "commentate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | علق (annotate, comment, dangle, gloss, hang, hang up, hinge, pin out, rest, shelve, sling, stop, string up, suspend, swing), عقب (heel, posterity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | komentovat (comment, gloss). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kommentere (annotate, expound, mark up), annotere (annotate, expound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitleggen (account for, clarify, explain, interpret, lengthen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commenter (comment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | reporterin sein, reporter sein, erklären (account for, affirm, announce, authenticate, avow, clarify, declare, explain, expound, proclaim, profess, pronounce, state, to account for, to explain, to expound, to meld, to state), auslegen (carpet, cover, design, display, explain, inlay, interpret, lend, line, pay out, spend, to lay out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"עיר "ערות (comment, mention, notice, observe, remark). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közvetít (broadcast, convey, go between, mediate, relay, televise, to convey, to cover, to interpose, to transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | commentare (amplify, comment, comment on, elucidate, exemplify, explain, expound, observe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommentatecay comentar (annotate, comment, gloss, observe, prophesy, remark). (various references) comentar (annotate, annotation, comment, discuss, gloss, help along, lecture, remark). (various references) vara kommentator, referera (cover, report), kommentera (annotate, comment, gloss, remark). (various references) yorumlamak (comment, construe, decipher, explicate, expound, gloss, interpret, paraphrase, read, render), değerlendirmek (appraise, appreciate, comment, evaluate, form an estimate of, interpret, judge, parlay, peruse, reclaim, recover, recycle, salvage, score, seize on, seize upon, size up). (various references) бути коментатором. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commentate": commentated, commentates. (additional references) | |
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"Commentate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cementite, commandite, commencate, commendate, comminate, communaute. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "commentate" (pronounced 'Com"men*tate'): Abirritate, Ablactate, Acetate, Agitate, Amputate, Anastate, Angulo-dentate, Angustate, Aptate, Archontate, Argentate, Arietate, Aristate, Astate, Auscultate, Bicostate, Bidentate, Bidigitate, Bipeltate, Bipunctate, Biscutate, Biseptate, Capacitate, Capitate, Carbazotate, Circumagitate, Circumnutate, Circumrotate, Coestate, Connotate, Constate, Contristate, Cooptate, Counterirritate, Crebricostate, Crepitate, Cristate, Cruentate, Curtate, Curvicostate, Curvidentate, Debilitate, Decantate, Decapitate, Decemdentate, Dehonestate, Deitate, Delectate, Fertilitate, Flagitate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-m-n-o-t-t" | |
-2 letters: ammocete. | |
-3 letters: acetone, cementa, comment, meatmen, memento, momenta, tomenta. | |
-4 letters: cement, cenote, cetane, coatee, comate, cottae, menace, metate, moment, notate, octane, octant, omenta, tenace, tomcat, toneme. | |
-5 letters: ament, atone, cameo, canoe, canto, cento, comae, comet, comma, comte, conte, cotan, cotta, eaten, emmet, emote, enact, enate, enema, macon, matte, meant, menta, monte, motet, motte, oaten. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-m-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: commentated, commentates. | |
+2 letters: committeeman. | |
+3 letters: compartmented, magnetometric. | |
+4 letters: committeewoman, thermomagnetic. | |
+5 letters: complementarity, complementation. | |
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